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Georgia Prisoner Wins $60,000 Retaliation Verdict
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2000, page 2
On September 30, 1999, U.S. district court judge Orinda Evans awarded Georgia state prisoner Ray Yelverton $60,000 in compensatory and punitive damages in a retaliation suit against prison officials. Yelverton was convicted of child molestation charges in 1990. He was imprisoned at the Ware State Prison in Waycross where he ...
Filed under:
Retaliation,
Retaliation for Filing Grievances,
Retaliatory Transfers,
Retaliation for Organizing,
Prison Labor,
Damages.
Location:
Georgia.
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